Bi-objective release planning for evolving software systems

6th Joint Meeting of the European Software Engineering Conference and the ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering, ESEC/FSE 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 105-114

  Saliu, Moshood Omolade ^a   Ruhe, Guenther ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bi objective optimization; Evolving systems; Feature coupling; Impact analysis; Release planning

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SYSTEMS; DECISION THEORY; FEATURE EXTRACTION; PARETO PRINCIPLE; PROBLEM SOLVING; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

BI-OBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION; EVOLVING SYSTEMS; FEATURE COUPLING; IMPACT ANALYSIS; RELEASE PLANNING;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; PINCH EFFECT;

EID: 37849029618     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1287624.1287641     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (31)

1. Arnold, R. S. and Bohner, S. A. Impact analysis - Towards a Framework for Comparison. In Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance (Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 1993), 292-301.
2. Bagnall, A. J., Rayward-Smith, V. J., and Whittley, I. M. The Next Release Problem. Information and Software Technology, 43,14 (2001), 883-890.
3. Berge, C. Graphs and Hypergraphs. North-Holland Publishing Company, Amsterdam, 1976.
4. Calder, M., Kolberg, M., Magill, E. H., and Reiff-Marganiec, S. Feature Interactions: a Critical Review and Considered Forecast. Computer Networks, 41, 1 (2003), 115-141.
5. Carlshamre, P., Sandahl, K., Lindvall, M., Regnell, B., and Nattoch Dag, J. An Industrial Survey of requirements interdependencies in Software Release Planning. In Proceedings of 5th IEEE International Symposium on Requirements Engineering (Toronto, Canada, Aug. 27-31, 2001), 84-91.
6. Dahlstedt, A. G. and Persson, A. Requirements Interdependencies - Moulding the State of Research into a Research Agenda. In Proceedings of 9th International Workshop on Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality (REFSQ'03) (Klagenfurt/Velden, Austria, Jun. 16-17, 2003), 55-64.
7. Denne, M. and Cleland-Huang, J. The Incremental Funding Method: Data Driven Software Development. IEEE Software, 21, 3 (2004), 39-47.
8. Ehrgott, M. and Gandibleux, X. A Survey and Annotated Bibliography of Multiobjective Combinatorial Optimization. OR Spektrum, 22,4 (November, 2000 2000), 425-460.
9. Feather, M. S., Cornford, S. L., and Gibbel, M. Scalable Mechanisms for Requirements Interaction Management. In Proceedings of 4th International Conference on Requirements Engineering (ICREW) (Schaumburg, IL, USA, June 19-23, 2000), 119-129.
10. Giroux, O. and Robillard, M. P. Detecting Increases in Feature Coupling using Regression Tests. In Proceedings of 14th ACM SIGSOFTInternational Symposium on Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE 2006) (Portland, Oregon, USA, November 5-11,2006), 163-174.
11. Greer, D., "Decision Support for Planning Software Evolution with Risk Management", in 16th International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE'04). Banff, Canada, 2004, pp. 503-508.
12. Griffeth, N. D. and Lin, Y.-J. Extending Telecommunications Systems: The Feature-Interaction Problem. IEEE Computer, 26, 8 (August, 1993 1993), 14-18.
13. Haimes, Y. Y., Lasdon, L. S., and Wismer, D. A. On a Bicriterion Formulation of the Problems of Integrated System Identification and System Optimization. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, 1, 3 (1971), 296-297.
14. Hassan, A. E. and Holt, R. C. Predicting Change Propagation in Software Systems. In Proceedings of International Conference on Software Maintenance (Chicago, Illinois, USA, Sept. 11-17, 2004), 284-293.
15. Jung, H.-W. Optimizing Value and Cost in Requirements Analysis. IEEE Software, 15, 4 (1998), 74-78.
16. Karlsson, J. and Ryan, K. A Cost-Value Approach for Prioritizing Requirements. IEEE Software, 14, 5 (1997), 67-74.
17. Keck, D. O. and Kuehn, P. J. The Feature and Service Interaction Problem in Telecommunications Systems: A Survey. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 24, 10 (October 1998), 779-796.
18. Lin, J. G. Multiple-Objective Problems: Pareto-Optimal Solutions by Method of Proper Equality Constraints. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 21, 5 (October, 1976 1976), 641-650.
19. Lin, J. G. Proper Inequality Constraints and Maximization of Index Vectors. Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications, 21, 4 (April, 1977 1977), 505-521.
20. Obayashi, S., Sasaki, D., and Oyama, A. Finding Tradeoffs by Using Multiobjective Optimization Algorithms. Transactions of the Japan Society for Aeronautical and Space Sciences, 47, 155 (2004), 51-58.
21. Penny, D. A. An Estimation-Based Management Framework for Enhancive Maintenance in Commercial Software Products. In Proceedings of International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM'02) (Montreal, Canada, 3-6 October, 2002), 122-130.
22. Rajlich, V. Modeling Software Evolution by Evolving Interoperation Graphs. Annals of Software Engineering, 9,1-4 (2000), 235-348.
23. (R), Intelligent Decision Support Tool. Software Engineering Decision Support Lab, Date Accessed: June 13, http://www. releaseplanner.com, 2006.
24. Robinson, W. N., Pawlowski, S. D., and Volkov, V. Requirements Interaction Management. ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), 35,2 (June 2003), 132-190.
25. Ruhe, G. and Ngo-The, A. Hybrid Intelligence in Software Release Planning. International Journal of Hybrid Intelligent Systems, 1, 2 (Jan. 2004), 99-110.
26. Saliu, O. and Ruhe, G. Software Release Planning for Evolving Systems. Innovations in Systems and Software Engineering - a NASA Journal, 1,2 (Sep. 2005), 189-204.
27. Saliu, O. and Ruhe, G. Supporting Software Release Planning Decisions for Evolving Systems. In Proceedings of 29th IEEE/NASA Software Engineering Workshop (SEW-29) (Greenbelt, MD, USA, 6-7 April, 2005), 14-26.
28. Turner, C. R., Fuggetta, A., Lavazza, L., and Wolf, A. L. A Conceptual Basis for Feature Engineering. Journal of Systems and Software, 49, 1 (1999), 3-15.
29. Walker, R. J., Holmes, R., Hedgeland, I., Kapur, P., and Smith, A. A Lightweight Approach to Technical Risk Estimation via Probabilistic Impact Analysis. In Proceedings of ICSE Workshop on Mining Software Repositories (MSR'06) (Shanghai, China, May 20-28,2006), 98-104.
30. Yellin, D. M. Algorithms for Subset Testing and Finding Maximal Sets. In Proceedings of 3rd Annual ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (Orlando, FL, USA, 1992), 386-392.
31. Zhang, W., Mei, H., and Zhao, H. Feature-Driven Requirement Dependency Analysis and High-Level Design. Requirements Engineering, 11, 3 (Jun. 2006), 205-220.